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Does this unit have bottom zoom? I can't tell from the description I find on line.
We fished last weekend for a few hours during the night with 3 of us crammed in a shanty with a Showdown 5.6 dual beam, a vex fl-8 and the garmin striker 4 and I didn't have to adjust the striker 4 which surprised me. I added the ice ducer and fish alot of shallow water and can manually adjust to 24 degrees which is nice. I feel that i did gain some with this unit but time will tell and it's nice knowing it's an easy hookup to the kayak. For the money it's a great unit.I guess if I had to give it a negative it would be the wiring to the battery and charger are a little frail. If I break one I'll have to redesign that setup.
I know I'm late to the party but I have been using my striker 4 for 3 seasons now and I absolutely love it. Not one bad thing to say about it. and to fix the battery wiring issue, I wired up a quick connect plug to mine so all I have to do is simply unplug from the unit and plug the charger in. It makes it nicer than having to pull it off the terminals of the battery.
Im a hardcore flasher guy and just got a garmin striker 5 plus.im hoping its easy to setup.one thing i dont like already is using the ice ducer you lose the ability to use clearvu and cant run flasher and graph at the same time.if i bought the open water ducer i would have more options but probably dont need it all for icefishing.im liking the clear visible screen but time will tell once i get it out on the ice.
Keep us updated Doc.
Dont mean to highjack ..but on applicable Garmin units the Active Captain App is pretty neat ...in conjunction with with Garmins Quickdraw mapping . I have a Echomap plus 43cv mounted to a Genz box that i used to map some local lakes that I like very much ..not certain it will be my goto ice unit ..but it may see a trip or two..
How about the small screen? Easy enough to read?
I got a great deal on a striker 4 ice bundle,the screen is way too small for my liking but I have a striker 5 on my jon boat so I swapped screens ,my issue is it doesn't come with a ice ducer but a boat style, PITA to get set right, imo I'd hard pass and go vex if it's a value flasher you want
cant run flasher and graph at the same time.
Really? On my striker 4 I can run a graph with A-scope on, I can’t imagine why you can’t run a graph & flasher simultaneously. A-scope is pretty much just flasher data shown in a vertical bar.(Image removed from quote.)